The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-02
Farm and Garden Notes.


Thorough wedding is a most important
point in onion culture.
If young horses suffer from cramps
give laxative food, such as bran mashes.
A little more care for the ornamental
trees would add greatly to the beauty
and value of the farm homestead.
Most farmers can keep a few hives of
bees to advantage. Honey, like fruit,
should be often found on the farmers
table
Early cut hay, cured green, gives both
color and flavor to butter, while hay of
ripened grass, while it makes harder but
ter, imparts less color and flavor, or none
at all.
Animals at work during the day should
have run at pasture at night. If there
is stream at not too great a distance, give
them, as well as the boys, a bath after
work IS over.
Wherever a farmer appreciates that his
| team is one of the heaviest items in his
expenses, and must be kept at work every
day when work is possible, he has fair
chance of success.
No farmer need sit down and expect
some one to furnish him a ready made
system or plan of conducting mis- farm.
He must make it himself is the opinion of
an acute agriculturist.
Feeding bran to horses prevents them
from becoming constipated on dry feed
and grain. Bran is cheap and valuable
feed, especially when the horses are she'd
ing coats in the spring.
There is considerable ground in the
garden that for several months of good
corn weather produces nothing but
weeds, whereas it could be made to af-
ford feed for many pound of thirty
five cent butter in experimenting the
pastures.
1t is said that if eggs are packed with
the small end downward, and in layers,
without touching each other, with plenty
of wheat or corn as packing material,
they will keep for Matching purposes for
two months.
Sheep multiply fast and returns come
from them quickly. The owner of
we'll managed flock has wool to sell in
the latter Part of spring, lambs in mid
summe rand mutton at other timesof year,
besides supplying his own table.
Eastern dairy men have found it
good plan to feed fresh skinned milk
and buttermilk together to COWS. This
is considered profitable way of utilizing
the skinned milk, only, to render it eff
fective, the skinned milk must not be
too old.
Remember that the greatest enemy
plant can have is another plant of the
same kind growing by its side, as both
feed on the same material. Remove the
weaker plants and leave the stronger
One good plant will yield more than two
plants under unfavOrable conditions.
Turn the plants out of their pots, re-
duce the balls of earth as much as posi-
BILE, so that all the worms can be picked
out by hand, and then re-pot in clean
pots, using fresh compost. To avoid
them do no plunge your plants during
the summer season; always plant them
out.
Shade is indispensable for the raising
of young chicks. Where the mother
hens are allowed free range, one of the
best shades can be formed by plant
ing a few pumpkin seeds in hills here
and there. The plants will grow rapidly
and during the hot days both hen and
chickens will take advantage of the
shade given by the broad leaves.
No plant has a greater abundance of
roots than has Indian corn. Prof. Thur
man, of the Alabama Experiment Station,
examined the roots of corn plant only
eight inches high from the surface of the
soil, and radicals were found to occupy
an area of thirty-six square feet. A
number were found to penetrate the sub
soil nine inches below the surface. Corn
is surface root and surface-feeding
plant.
SCOT water is thus prepared Tie up
one gallon of SCOT in cloth bag, throw it
into nine-gallon cask Of hot water, work
the bag we'll in the water, which should
stand until clear, when it may be used,
after being diluted with clear water. No
hard and fast rule can be laid down as to
the strength at which it is safe to use it.
Each one must use his own judgment,
according to the class and state of the
plant requiring it. One had better use
it too weak than too strong.
Peach growers should engage expert
enced pickers; all should be watched, as
an over-ripe peach will spoil all in the
basket or crate. An experienced picker
knows by the touch or feel whether the
peach is too hard to ripen by the time it
reaches the consumer, or so soft as to de-
cav on its way to market. Asserting
peaches pays; make them into three
Qualities, firsts and seconds to 90 to
market, and the third to be kept at home
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